Quotes by Gayle Forman

“We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.”

“Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.”

“Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.”

“I force my eyes upward and look at Mia for the first time. She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Bryn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to m...”

“We stand there for a moment, staring at each other, savoring it. And then all at once, we slam together. Mia's legs are off the ground, wrapped around my waist, her hands dipping in my hair, my han...”

“It's my turn to see you through,' she whispers, coming back to me and wrapping me in her blanket as I lose my shit all over again. She holds me until I recover my Y chromosome.”

“Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others.”

“Concert' doesnt mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.”

“In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.”

“It takes a certain kind of naivet, or perhaps just stupidity, to know how things will end and still hope otherwise.”

“My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.”

“Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, its as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny.”

“After that, I became kind of fascinated by her and by what I guessed was her ability to hear music in the silence. Back then, I'd wanted to be able to do that, too. So I took to watching her play, ...”

“Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic...”

“Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest...”

“Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If thats what its like, I wouldnt mind.”

“It's okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want....”

“But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.”

“Samo mislim da su sprovodi vrlo slini smrti. Moe imati elje i planove, ali na kraju ipak nema kontrolu ni nad im.”

“I do have a point to all this, she continues. There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But were all your family. She stops...”